whats happened

[stevec]

yea we only caught 2 fish all night and one was 3lbs even and the other was a 10incher...broke off one good fish though...next time i think were gunna try the shallow water flippin bite

actually I thought about the same thing...tried everything else deep...and Jim it may have something to do with the shad..not sure..but the spots Im talking about catching big fish on are the same spots I caught them on the last time barren was low all summer..I have been fishing down there for about 12 years..I know all lakes go thru down periods..but the way things started the year down there with the HUGE sacks of fish I wouldnt have thought it would have gotten so tough in the warm months..alewifes??? quite possibly

[dh]

dale hollow has had alewives in the lake since the mid seventies & if anything it has improved the bass populations, same thing for laurel lake & you can still catch fish in the same spots that they used before alewifes were in the lake. i have no problem with alewives & i do not think that the problem at cumberland is alewives. jmo

[Bobby Headrick]

Thanks Jim, I agree with you on your suggestion, there's a conservation issue for both BASS/KBFN & FLW/KBF. I guess just like the bass and other fish will do is we as fishermen and fisherwomen will have to adapt, start throwing alewife colored baits. As they do frequent deeper water, and at this time of year, the bass have a great food source, that is in easy reach, since most bass are deep anyway. And also since there has been a lot of big sacks weighed in earlier this year, in most tourneys it took over ten lbs just to look at the leader board, lot of high teens and 20lb sacks this year, most of the fish are at release spots,lol. Barren is like that, always has, probally always will be, up and down, I was raised on that lake, just wish that they would leave it full or almost full, year round. Also I heard today that B.A.S.S writer Tim Tucker was killed in an auto accident in Fla, so sad, he was a great writer and photographer.